Kill All Your Friends by aWildSamAppears

Format: Commander

Commander: Bane, Lord of Darkness

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper control/"death-trigger" deck built around the command-zone engine of Bane, Lord of Darkness. The plan is to turn creature deaths - especially from the deck's dense wipe and edict suite - into card draw or surprise reanimation, while Bane, Lord of Darkness picks up indestructible once the deck's own life payments drop it to 20 or less. The primary kill is the Phage the Untouchable package: Fractured Identity exiles your own Phage and gives each opponent a copy that enters without being cast, ending the game. Endless Whispers and Echocasting Symposium offer alternate Phage-delivery routes, while Cabal Coffers/Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth big mana turns Exsanguinate into a standalone finisher. A Mindcrank/The Master of Lake-town/Archfiend of the Dross drain-mill engine provides a grindier backup path.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Retrieval
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angelic Purge
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Aquitect's Defenses
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Bane, Lord of Darkness
  • 1 Banishing Betrayal
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blossoming Calm
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Cynical Loner
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness Descends
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Dive Down
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Endless Whispers
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Floodpits Drowner
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gatekeeper of Malakir
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Myojin of Night's Reach
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Phage the Untouchable
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Pull from Eternity
  • 1 Raise Dead
  • 1 Rhys, the Evermore
  • 1 Servant of the Stinger
  • 1 Shambling Vent
  • 1 Shattered Acolyte
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Long Reach of Night // Animus of Night's Reach
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 War Priest of Thune